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GCC Constructor & Link order, Are they have relation? [migrated]

I have to write this question, I have try a lots to find the reason. There is a.c: UTEST_BEGIN() UID(a_test) { printf("a test"); return true; } UTEST_END(a) b.c is simlar: UTEST_BEGIN() ...
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Getting live info from /dev/input [migrated]

I am unsure if this is the correct place for this question. I am attempting to obtain the axis position values from a joystick /dev/input/js0 on my system. If I run jstest /dev/input/js0 it will give ...
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Is there a Linux for an MSM7227 tablet with USB keyboard and touchscreen stylus drivers?

I have a ZTE V9C 7" tablet with 800MHz MSM7227 processor, Snapdragon family (ARM architecture?), Android 2.3, and I want to have a (very lightweight) Linux running on it (I know Android uses a Linux ...
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What is the command or hotkey for stopping a running program in DrJava?

I installed DrJava about a week ago. Its been working fine so far but I ran into an infinite loop and wanted a way to stop the program from running without having to force DrJava to quit. Is there a ...
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Using .. and . to copy files from dirctories

I'm trying to copy a file from the home directory to the current directory( which is a subdirectory of a directory in home) using .. and . instead of path names or ~ This is what I tried, but it ...
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Keeping program GUI front-end and CLI functionality separate

In Linux a lot of programs have a CLI version and a GUI front-end. I read somewhere that this follows the linux philosophy and is good practice. Of course it's true from a developers perspective to ...
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What does the term static variable mean in unix speak?

From the section 2.7 of the book - The Linux programing Interface named Process memory layout : Data is defined as the static variables used by the program. What is the significance of the word ...
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What is AT&T’s Link Editor Command Language?

The man page for ld makes reference to AT&T’s Link Editor Command Language, however a Google search does not offer a satisfactory explanation as to what AT&T’s Link Editor Command Language is ...
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Best language to write linux services [closed]

I want to create a crawler that scans one single web page and sends me an email in case something is wrong on the page (the page holds some webservers' status - Up/Down). What would be the best ...
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UI toolkit + programming language to develop linux applications [closed]

Suggest good GUI designer tool with programming language for linux based application. For a developer who knows winform and C#. Don't want to use mono on linux to run .net application on linux. I ...
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How do I keep 'indent' from moving curly braces to the next line?

I have several empty inline function definitions in C++ like so: class C { void foo(){} void bar(){} }; now if I run indent -st -i4 -nut test.cc in order to just fix the indentation I get ...
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Linux on a tegra tablet for programming

I would like to use a tablet for some mobile programming. It would be nice to read a pdf and immediately try the code on the same device. I've found various videos and tutorials how to get Ubuntu ...
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Extract name of file without extension in shell script [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Best way to remove file extension from a string? How to rename multiple files by removing the extension? I have a metric boatload of .txt files I'd like to load into a ...
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Best distro for programming [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Linux distribution geared towards developers I don't know if this question qualifies to be a question to be asked here. But can anyone tell me what's the best (linux) ...
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How do I install drjava in linux from terminal?

I've downloaded drjava-stable-20100816-r5366.jar file which is the drjava version for Linux. How do I install it on my machine? I'm running Ubuntu 11.10. I have OpenJDK Java 6 runtime and Sun Java 6 ...

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